Michelle Bachman: “…what is it that Barack Obama really believes? We know that he’s the most liberal senator in the United States Senate, and that’s just after one year after being there, he’s the most liberal, Joe Biden is the third most liberal, you got Harry Reid who’s liberal, Nancy Pulosi who’s liberal, you have a troika of the most leftist, a leftist administration in the history of our country.”
Chris Matthews: If you have liberal views, does that mean you have anti-American views? What’s the connection? I don’t get the connection. What’s the connection between liberal and leftist and anti-American? I mean, if you’re a liberal, are you anti-American?”
Michelle Bachman: “Anti-American is the point. Well the liberals that are Jeremiah Wright and that are Bill Ayers are over the top anti-American, and that’s the question that Americans have. Remember it was Michele Obama who said she’s only recently proud of her country, and so these are very anti-American views. That’s not the way that most Americans feel about our country. Most Americans, Chris, are wild about America and they’re very concerned to have a president who doesn’t share those values.”
First of all, I’ve had it up to here… no, wait, I’ve never really understood a phrase that forces you to whack yourself in the forehead to illustrate a point. Unless I was whacking Michelle Bachman in the forehead, just to hear the dull thud. I just don’t get why the words “liberal” or “leftist” need to be hissed, and where all this “anti-American” shit is coming from. The word “rightist” should probably be said with a trilling “R” and a finger pointed upwards, because that would just be fun to do. We have a population of over three hundred million people, and to try and establish a common understanding of what it means to be American is ridiculous. You can be American and find fault with your government. You can be American and choose to terminate a pregnancy. You can be American and believe in a welfare system. You can be American and reject the concept of a god. If being American for you means praying to Jesus and carrying a rifle, knock yourself out – it’s not for me to tell you what your sense of patriotism is based on, even if I think you’re a whackjob.
Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pulosi, a troika of the most leftist something-or-others in the history of our country… Except that a “troika” refers to three things. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pulosi would be, I believe, a quartet. Or a forka.
Jeremiah Wright damned America. But as someone who follows the word of God and the 10 Commandments, I think he has a right to voice his opposition to his government. Is he anti-American? Only he knows that, but I wouldn’t say so. Nut, yes. Anti-American, no.
“Governments fail. The government in this text comprised of Caesar, Cornelius, Pontius Pilate - the Roman government failed. The British government used to rule from East to West. The British government had a Union Jack. She colonized Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Hong Kong. Her navies ruled the seven seas all the way down to the tip of Argentina in the Falklands, but the British government failed. The Russian government failed. The Japanese government failed. The German government failed. And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains. The government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton fields, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into position of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law, and then wants us to sing God bless America? No, no, no. Not God bless America; God damn America! That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!”
Bill Ayers bombed public buildings as leader of the Weathermen, a group formed in opposition to the Vietnam War. While I don’t agree with the destruction, and I certainly find fault with the three deaths as a result, the right to contradict our government is part of the Bill of Rights, and I completely agree with Ayers’ opposition to the war.
I also hate Wal-mart. I give to the homeless. I think there’s too big a gap between the rich and the poor in our country, and the rich should be taxed more to raise the quality of life for all of us. Our schools are troubled, our kids are dumb, children go hungry, the crime rate is out of control, and there are potholes. Potholes, I tell you.
Not wanting to raise the quality of life for the entire country is anti-American.
You heard me.